The Sharjah Heritage Institute recently released two music albums from the artistic heritage, by researcher and musician Azhar Kubba, head of the artistic heritage department at the institute. The first album, entitled “I am 3000 years old,” reviews 12 tracks, including music for songs from the Iraqi heritage, the santor translates her singing with a new distribution , As well as musical compositions, and the titles of the musical compositions come under the titles: Bahida / Ad, Wana Ad, Hiyam, This Is No Equity, Memories of Baghdad, Escudara, My Journey to Andalusia, Sleep is forbidden, Mad Haajin, Travel Routes, in addition to Sarah’s Music and Taqsim inspired by Maqam Al-Rast, and musical tales.
Al-Santour’s music
The second album includes folk arts from the world, and has been documented for the groups that participated in Sharjah Heritage Days during the past years, within the scope of the Institute’s wide interest in Emirati and Gulf folk arts, as a window Azhar Kubba said: “The music of the santor contributes to the entry of the listener and the follower into the world of psychological calm, intellectual comfort, and inner peace, and the beauty of its magic always inspires inner peace, as if it takes the listener to places higher than the earth and into spaces without limits. Dr., in addition to the fact that the santor is a difficult musical instrument to use, which led to a lack of players on it, ”explaining:“ We need experts in the world of music. In order to contribute to the preservation of this amazing instrument, and to protect it from extinction. ”
Historical Epics
Kubba pointed out that the santor is a stringed musical instrument dating back to the first Iraqi civilizations, since the time of the Babylonians and the Sumerians. Where they embodied the santor in their historical epics, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is similar to the instrument of the zither, but differs from it in the way of playing, with the dendritic instrument played by striking its strings with two small wooden beaters, and the sounds are switched by moving the braces that support the strings, while the playing is performed With the instrument of zither, two blades made of silver, worn on the index finger of the player’s right and left hands, then he taps them on the strings in front of him.
He explained that the daisy instrument contains twenty-four different notes, and they are divided and tightened in a quadrant, so all four strings have a degree Single phoneme; The number of wires or strings in a daisy is 100, with keys also numbering 100, located to the right of the instrument, and each key is divided into a string of which is designated for the tuning or tunic. To control the rhythms and vocal degrees, and the centaur plays a great role in controlling the rhythm of the song and transmitting the musical vocabulary.
He said: “Each musical instrument has a special feature that distinguishes it from others, and what distinguishes the daisy instrument is its fresh tones completely different from the rest of the other musical instruments, and all An instrument that has another special feature related to the way it is played and its style, which makes it enter the hearts without permission.